We’ve just set foot in the second month of 2025 and we have a brand-new new three hour show for you! Tuesday is once again “New Show Day” on The AIR. As such, we have a new episode of Radio Free Charleston for you. To listen to The AIR, you simply have to point your cursor over and tune in at the website, or you could just stay here, and listen to the cool embedded player found elsewhere on this page.
You can hear Radio Free Charleston Tuesdays at 10 AM and 10 PM, with boatloads of replays throughout the week.
This week RFC brings you three hours of cool stuff, starting with a cool new M. Walker remix of the song “Dance” by Hello June. We follow that with loads of new tunes by the likes of The Heavy Editors, Scott Collins & The Sovereignty, AJ Rosales, Shining Glass, Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates, Ringo Starr, Franz Ferdinand and more.
Our first two hours bring you our usual mix of local, independent, obscure and anything else kind of music that we feel like playing. Our third hour, though, is a special mixtape.
In our third hour revisit a theme we first brought you last October. We devote the final hour of this week’s show to Surf Music, both new and classic. When I did this before, the reaction surprised me, with several people asking if I could devote an entire show to Surf. I don’t have the time or resources to do that at the moment, but every few weeks we’ll dig into my growing Surf archives and bring you a mixtape of the coolest stuff I can find.
This week’s show includes several acts who are on Tabu Recordings,from House of Tabu. In the future we may shine the spotlight on other cool specialty Surf Music labels.
The links in the playlist will take you to the pages for the artists in this week’s show except for the Surf bands that broke up fifty or sixty years ago…
RFC V5 212
hour one
Hello June “Dance (M.Walker Remix)”
The Heavy Editors “Same Ole Way”
The Subjunctives “We’re Not Friends Anymore”
Camouflage “Laughing”
Annie Lennox “Train In Vain”
Brian Diller “Sooner or Later”
Scott Collins & The Sovereignty “Lament for the Loss”
AJ Rosales “Thunderclouds”
Verdeant “Reckless”
Shining Glass “Bald King of the Old World”
William Matheny “Blood Moon Singer”
Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates “The Queen of Diamonds (live)”
Ringo Starr “Never Let Me Go”
Franz Ferdinand “Night Or Day”
Mediogres“Outta Town”
Novo Combo “Everything It Takes To Be Happy”
hour two
Sierra Ferrell “Fox Hunt”
Deni Bonet “Always Come Home”
Massing “Waffles & Pancakes (rejuiced)”
Hybrid Zero “20 Steps”
The Settlement “Cycles (Live)” Live at the Pour House
Japan “Life In Tokyo”
Emmalea Deal & The Hot Mess “Ignorant”
Dinosaur Burps “Driftwood”
Kim Wilde “Midnight Train”
Magne Furoholmen “One 4 All and All 4 One”
Astrodot “Impossible Mission”
hour three Surf Mixtape
Los Grainders “Escondida”
The Surfrajettes “Spice Up Your Life”
Guitarmy of One “Must Be The Season of Treason”
Lords of Atlantis “Long Live The King”
Test Subject 17 “Patient Zero”
The Tentakills “A Horse Named Artax”
Messer Chups “Pink Pantheratu”
The Madeira “Sandstorm”
Kitten & The Tonics “Memphis Red”
The Routes “Neon Lights”
The Surf Stompers “Surfer Stomp”
Los Teenagers “Ametrallando (Wipe Out)”
Surf Curse “Freaks”
The Centurians “Intoxica”
The Shadows “Kon Tiki”
Mystery Group “The Fifth Dimension”
Danny Steel “Chinese Twist”
The Centuries “Outer Limits”
The Varitones “Repeto”
The Majestics “Big Noise From Makaha”
You can hear this episode of Radio Free Charleston Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM on The AIR, with replays Wednesday at 9 AM, Thursday at 2 PM, Friday at 9 AM, Saturday at Noon and Midnight, Sunday at 8 PM and Monday at 11 AM, exclusively on The AIR. Now you can also hear a different classic episode of RFC every weekday at 5 PM, and we bring you a marathon all night long Saturday night/Sunday morning.
I’m also going to embed a low-fi, mono version of this show right in this post, right here so you can listen on demand.
After RFC, stick around for encores of last week’s episodes of MIRRORBALL at 1 PM and Curtain Call at 2 PM.
At 3 PM we give you an encore of two classic episodes of The Swing Shift.
You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 8 AM, Friday at 10 AM and 8 PM and Saturday afternoon, only on The AIR . You can also hear all-night marathons, seven hours each, starting at Midnight Thursday and Sunday evenings.
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